Motor vehicle behind-glass adhesive label

Abstract

A motor vehicle behind-glass adhesive label with printing having a multiplicity of items of information, which is applied onto a flexible carrier layer by means of laser, offset and / or digital printing, characterised in that the carrier layer is implemented as a single layer of a non-transparent polymer material and is designed so that it can adhere to a motor vehicle glass surface on its printed side and without any intermediate adhesive and / or adhesive material.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a motor vehicle behind-glass adhesive label according to the preamble of the main claim.[0002]A device of this kind is generally of known art from the prior art and is based on common practice in the USA and Canada (alternatively North America) and legally regulated requirements to identify motor vehicles that are for sale with legally designated information components. To be more precise the so-called Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958, also called the Monroney Act, regulates what information is to be provided on such a self-adhering price label of known art in order to display a motor vehicle in a manner conforming to legislation. To this end belong in terms of content, alongside items of information specific to the vehicle type such as price, engine specifications, and standard of fittings, other specific items of information such as environmental sustainability items, e.g. emissions output and similar, ...

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Benefits of technology

[0011]By means of these measures in accordance with the invention the tasks underlying the invention are advantageously solved. Firstly the polymer material (non-transparent, thus forming good artwork with excellent contrast) can simply be printed with current printing devices, such as laser printing, wherein further preferred this can take place in a single printing process (printing pass) on an unprinted carrier material. This lowers the amount of manipulation effort and reduces the occurrence of errors.

[0012]The advantageous feature of the polymer material, to adhere without any intermediate adhesive or glue material on a glass surface (inner surface of a motor vehicle screen), leads to the fact that the adhesive label can not only be manipulated into position extremely simply, will but can also be removed without any residues in this most simple of configurations. Since moreover the adhesive label is not damaged when removed it can be reused without any problems, for instance at another location on the vehicle or in repeated application at the same location.

[0020]As a result the present invention thus not only enables in everyday practice and for a large number of motor vehicles a noticeable reduction in effort in the manipulation of the otherwise laborious identification and display of motor vehicles as legally regulated, it also enables added value in an extremely simple manner by the systematic linking and introduction of external (net-based) information, which not only provides immediate added value for the motor vehicle trader as user, but also offers to the customer the immediate option of additional functionality-enhancing information processing.

Problems solved by technology

However, the use and actual application of this kind of behind-glass adhesive label, of known art from the prior art, also brings with it disadvantages that are in need of improvement, which in straightforward everyday use have a disruptive effect.

However, a procedure of this kind of known art is disadvantageous in many respects.

Firstly the printing process is laborious and subject to errors, since it is not usual to print any blank masters; instead as a master the user encounters sets of documents already pre-printed, which he then supplements with specific information for the motor vehicle in question.

In other words, the document set shown in FIG. 5 is fed through a printing arrangement at least twice, with the potential problems linked with this process of a paper jam, an adhesive layer that is becoming unusable or deteriorating, or similar.

With modifications of the content of the first printing the pre-fabricated masters become unusable, and must be disposed of and newly pre-printed.

To this is added the problem that an adhesive label of the kind shown in FIG. 5 once it has been applied in practice cannot be removed without leaving residues.

Also procedure as determined by the system includes the principle of known art that an adhesive label once applied as a rule cannot be reused, because the adhesive layer is worn out or used up (the situation can in fact occur that as a result of intensive solar radiation and the thermal or UV radiation that accompanies it the adhesive layer 52, which just holds the adhesive label in the edge region, becomes ineffective and thus is no longer able to adhere the adhesive label to the screen.

As a result therefore the manufacturing and usage scenario for motor vehicle behind-glass adhesive labels of known art is disadvantageous and in need of improvement.

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